Discovery Channel

Just saw a documentary showing a new breed of scientists who look at nature and try to find out how to invent things that are as good as what nature can provide.

Examples include:

1) We bump into each other on a daily basis but we do not get dented as cars would. Certain animals e.g. rams have a habit of head-butting each other at ferocious speeds but have little injury to show for. How good it would be to invent cars that would be able to withstand such forces without any damage to show for.

2) Spider webs that are so flexible yet the tensile strength of it is harder than steel.

3) They are learning from the way abalone form shells to develop new hard laminated materials and also superfast computer chips of the future.

4) They are studying the senses that spiders have. Spiders apparently are very sensitive to their environment (hence spider-man) and yet they do not have a very large brain. Currently, if man were to try to process the amount of information that the spider is supposedly processing in a single second, he would need a huge super computer a few hours to do the same job. How can a spider do the same thing effortlessly in that tiny brain of his?

As I was watching the documentary, I was thinking, Hey, ain't it supposed to be the other way round? What are we "higher order" ones doing going "backwards" to "lower order" animals for answers?

Unless, it is not backwards but forwards, because it brings us closer to the One who created all these. Sadly, many will miss the forest for the trees...